Lumber-filer



(No Model.) G. D. CLARKE.

LUMBER PILER. I

No. 397,490. 3 I Patented Feb. 12, 1 889.

UNITED STATES LUMBER-PILER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.

397,490, dated February '12, 1889.

Application filed $eptember 22, 1888. Serial No. 286,119. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be itknown thatI, CHARLESDIXON CLARKE, a citizen of the United State, residing at Merrill, in the county of Lincoln and State of \Visconsin, have invented new and useful Iniprovements in Lumber-Pilers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in devices for use in piling lumber; and it consists in certain novel features hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing my device in operative position. Fig. 2 is afront elevation of the device removed. Fig. 3 is a side view of the same.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the base-board, of suitable dimensions. This board is provided at its lower end on its opposite sides with the pointed hooks or spurs B, which are adapted to take into the lumber pile and support the device in an upright position. At its upper end on its opposite sides the board is provided wit-h the hooks G,which may have their points sharpened to take into the lumber-pile, or may have them blunt to adapt the device for suspension from the rail of a freight-car, as will be readily understood. At its upper end the base-board has secured to its front face the brackets E, which project forward and upward, and have secured to their upper ends the U-shaped supportingarm F, and in the upper extremities of this supporting-arm is journaled a roller, G.

In practice the device is intended especially for use in piling up lumber as it is received from a tramway at the lumber-yards, and it is secured in position by causing the upper hooks, O, to engage the top of'the pile of lumber and the lower hooks to engage the side of the same. As the lumber is received from the tramway it is directed onto the roller, so that it can beeasily run over the same to the next pile of lumber, where it is deposited.

It will thus be seen that I have provided a very simple device by which the operator is relieved of the weight of the lumber and is enabled to work much more rapidly.

\Vhen my device used for piling lumber in freight-cars for transportation, the hooks O are made bluntpointed and caused to e11- gage the rail or rod running along the top of the carat the end of the same, so that the lumber can be run over the roller into the car longitudinally.

In Fig. 2 I have shown the base-board as provided at its upper end 011 its opposite sides with the lateral arms I, upon which the hooks C are to be loosely mounted, so as to be adjusted to the width of the car.

It is to be understood thatI do not limit myself to the exact details of construction shown in the drawings, as it is obvious that many minor changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit of my invention. For instance, the brackets E may have their upper ends provided with bearing-loops, in which the rollers G can be journaled, and the supporting-arm F thereby dispensed with, as will be readily understood.

I Fig. 1 I have shown a removable standard, a, which is intended to be used when the pile of lumber is low. This standard is provided near its lower end with the spurs h, which are caused to engage the side of the pile of lumber, as shown, and on its side edges it is provided with the vertical rods 0, on which are looselymounted the hooks (Z, which are caused to engage the top of the lllll1l)(3l' pile. My device is applied to'this standard until the lumber -pile has reached a good height, when the standard is removed and the device applied directly to the lumber-pile.

, Having thus described myinvention,whatI claim, and desire to secure by Letters liatent, 1s

1. A device for use in piling lumber, consisting of a base-board, suspending-hooks at the upper end of said board, and a roller supported at the upper end of said board on the front side of the same, as set forth.

2. A device for use in piling lumber, consisting of a base-board, suspension-hooks at the upper end of the same, spurs at the lower end thereof, and a roller supported on the front side of the board at its upper end, as set forth.

The combination of the baseboard, the

brackets E, secured to the front side thereof In testimony that I claim the foregoing as at the upper end of the same, the supportingmy own I have hereto afiixed my signature 1o arm F, secured to said brackets, and the roller in presence of two witnesses.

supported by said arm, as specified.

5- 4. The combination of the standard having CHARLES DIXON CLARKE" the spurs b and hooks cl, the base-board 1n ount- WVitn esses: ed on the standard, and the roller carried by i H. R. ALLEN,

said base-board, as set forth. PERRY FOSTER. 

